Sentences with phrase «of legal research skills»

At the same time as I was reviewing this article, which stresses the importance of legal research skills for law practice, I received notiifcation from WestlaweCarswell about their new certification programme:

One of the questions put to the panel in advance of the session was: «What kind of legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient in by... [more]

One of the questions put to the panel in advance of the session was: «What kind of legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient in by the end of second or third year of law school?»

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Puneet Arora, an engaging physician who has studied at Indian and American universities and practiced medicine among America's underserved — and who currently is Amgen's director of clinical research — appeared on behalf of Immigration Voice, an organization of «legal high - skilled future Americans,» its Web site says.

It would also be important to lay out forecasts and policy responses for the already current reality of AI displacing not just «mundane» blue - collar labor but also highly skilled professional work, such as medical diagnoses or legal research.

With over twenty years of legal experience as a Litigation Paralegal, Tish provides solid analytical and research skills that focus on business ethics for her clients.

The guidelines will provide for a sequential course of study for each of the grades kindergarten through 12 and must include, at a minimum, the following: (1) knowledge of the research process and how information is created and produced; (2) skills in using information resources and critical thinking about those resources; (3) the abilities to evaluate information critically and competently, to recognize relevant primary and secondary information, and to distinguish among facts, points of view, and opinions; (4) access to information and information tools; and (5) an understanding of economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and how to use information ethically and legally.

The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy, legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.

During my time at American Rivers I expereinced a wide - variety of in - house legal work (everything from contracts, to trademarks, to reviewing marketing / promotions material, to legal research) and developed skills as a «corporate generalist» that have served me well during my post-law school jobs in legal departments.

The law school's Tarlton Law Library convened the conference, Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research skLegal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - researchResearch, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research sklegal - researchresearch skills.

Training United States law students in the skills of legal research has never been easy.

The letter expressed concern that the blog post in question sent «a message that legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»

My day - one poll of the students generally suggests some feel uncertainty about their legal research and writing skills as they prepare to enter the profession, and they take the course almost as «remedial legal research and writing,» to borrow the words of a colleague.

Two years ago in a post here, I bemoaned the shuttering of The Virtual Chase, a website devoted to enhancing the research skills of legal professionals.

For my part I would suggest two core responsibilities: law schools must provide thoughtful and well - researched engagement with the sufficiency of the administration of justice in Canada, and must ensure that any graduate who goes into legal practice has been equipped with the core intellectual skills necessary to practice effectively.

Unfortunately, most students come to law school overconfident in their research skills because they are fairly adept at the simple task of gathering information.30 So they often fail to appreciate that legal research is significantly more sophisticated and complex than the more - general research they have conducted in the past.

Call it, perhaps, «research skills and methods for the lawyer» and provide a solid grounding in all of the traditional and modern legal research techniques but also branch out into the literature of other disciplines and the challenging breadth of the Internet.

Upon arrival, McCague Borlack's students participate in a multi-day comprehensive orientation, including computer skills training, introduction to the firm's basic policies and procedures, and a series of seminars on various substantive and practice matters including legal research, docketing, file and practice management; and motions.

Discussions on artificial intelligence and law seek to find the diminishing demarcation between the human - only part of lawyering (multi-disciplinary integration, especially regarding strategy; «reading» the client; emotional intelligence) and those lawyering skills more efficiently accomplished by artificial intelligence (legal pattern recognition research for document and contract review).

LAWCLERK ™ works with graduates who haven't taken the bar yet because they are valuable in terms of legal research, writing, and briefing skills which are all sought after in this marketplace.

So, although finding legal information has almost become a one - click process, intelligently using it remains a difficult skill to master.40 To understand research and perform it well, students must be able to specifically identify a legal source when they see one — in any medium — and they must learn to question the nature of everything that they turn up along the way.41 Even more fundamentally, they must understand exactly what authority governs a particular legal issue.

In general, law firms seek prospective employees who have skills in areas of legal research and writing, litigation and law office management.

It doesn't take much research skill to find the key lawyers at the bigger firms; the real art is sniffing out the hidden gems in the nooks and crannies of the legal market.

Traditionalist legal research theory provides a focused means of organizing information — from general background information to the specific rules that govern a particular legal issue.66 And organizing and categorizing legal authority are core skills that new researchers desperately need to master.

A strong understanding and firm commitment to the mission of BYU, proven maturity, and good judgment Superior oral and written communication skills Superior interpersonal skills with both peers and subordinates Ability to manage and supervise highly skilled, motivated and independent professional employees Understanding of and sensitivity to the non-legal ramifications of strategic legal decisions Outstanding analytical, interpersonal, problem - solving and research skills Proficiency in common computer programs and web - based applications Ability to work closely and effectively with high - level university administrators Involvement with professional associations Current bar license from applicable state licensing agency Preferred:

Because the cornerstone of an appeal is the appellate brief, an attorney must have superior legal research and writing skills.

• Generally speaking, students who write more (reflected by the number of writing assignments completed and the number of pages written during the current academic year) are more likely to report higher gains in legal research skills and the ability to write clearly and effectively.

McGeorge School of Law's distinctive two - year Global Lawyering Skills (GLS) intensive legal writing program — ranked # 13 by U.S. News & World Report in 2012 — is designed to enhance and deepen the students» experience in research, writing, and oral advocacy and produce skilled, practice - ready graduates.

And unless the real emphasis (by schools, students, and potential employers) on legal research has also changed, the influence of mandatory legal research courses is minimal, despite the real importance of the practical skills they offer.

Although both types of writing assignments are related to gains in important skills, practice - oriented writing assignments are more highly related to gains in nearly all areas, including legal research, clear and effective writing, application of skills to real - world situations, and the acquisition of job - or work - related skills

If «experiential» means a greater emphasis on practical legal knowledge and skills with the objective of preparing students for professional practice, perhaps an academic research collection and the library to hold it would not be needed.

Legal skill at research is everyone's idea of a good, a rallying point for real collaboration on legal education between firms and faculLegal skill at research is everyone's idea of a good, a rallying point for real collaboration on legal education between firms and facullegal education between firms and faculties.

However, ensuring we have strong research skills will allow us to start our legal careers with confidence, knowing that we can learn an area of law that we did not get the opportunity to study in law school.

Because of the amount of information available today, the number of access choices, and the limited subject knowledge of a new lawyer, it likely will take several years to develop adequate legal research skills.

Beyond what we've included here and in our Inside View of K&L Gates, the firm advises candidates «stay abreast of the business world and the world in general; take time to network and meet a variety of professionals in the legal industry; be well - rounded in your education and take a variety of classes, even if you can't foresee how a class may benefit you; become a better writer by joining a journal or continuing to improve upon your writing skills; and be diligent in your research rather than assuming what you hear is true.»

The requisite skills for doing so, moreover, are sufficiently distinct from domestic legal research and reasoning that they can not be acquired either by osmosis or by simple extrapolation of domestic techniques to a transnational plane.40 Consequently, rising twenty - first century lawyers will need explicit exposure to, and instruction in, the basic LRW skills that are fundamental to a transnational legal practice.

Indeed, if American legal education is truly serious about the globalization of law, we should demonstrate that belief by including global legal research in the toolkit of essential skills that students are expected to acquire.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

«Wilton Strickland has a high level of skill in legal research and writing, and he finds good arguments when everyone else has missed them.»

Unless comparative research techniques and comparative analysis achieve greater prominence in American legal education, advocates will lack the skills that are needed to make sophisticated and effective comparative constitutional arguments, and the role of comparative precedent will remain largely cosmetic.

Relatively few globalization proposals address the role of globalization in skills courses, and even fewer concern globalization in the Legal Research and Writing («LRW») curriculum.

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

For example, in the final decades of the twentieth century, legal writing and «skills» professors have occupied the cutting - edge in terms of integrating literary scholarship on narrative and language into legal research and scholarship.

Though I recognize the importance of strong legal research skills, I strongly disagree with Hodnicki and other law librarians (including Clair Germain of Cornell Law, my alma mater) over the value of including a legal research component on the bar.

First, I don't think that there's an objective way to measure effective legal research skills because the amount of research that lawyers perform, and the way in which they do so will depend upon the availability of resources.

Hodnicki disagrees, explaining that most skilled legal research instructors would be capable of devising a test that could determine if «exam takers are thinking like law librarians by analyzing a research issue from the perspective of access points and routes to legal resources.»

On a personal note, although it was pleasing to see reference to the importance of legal research and digital literacy in recommendations no. 4.47 (p. 135) and no. 7.15 (p. 275) of the LETR report, the lack of hard recommendations for inclusion or exclusion of a range of newer essential skills makes it seem for now that the LETR may be an opportunity lost.

«The attorneys surveyed placed advanced legal research skills alongside drafting pleadings and motions as the skills both «most needed» and «most lacking» in litigation practice,» according to Nota Bene, a blog by the librarians at the University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.

While I believe that both factors — the informality of e-mail and lack of quality teaching — have contributed to the decline of legal writing skills today, I think the main problem is the easy availability of low - cost, computerized legal research tools.

The facts of particular issues that you are working on may require further research in a particular area, but that is where your legal skills come in...